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633 quotes by 541 authors

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and… — David Mitchell
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To… — Joshua Foer
Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence. — Anais Nin
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes.… — Raymond Carver
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most… — Elwyn Brooks White
No one who writes a good book is really dead. — Walter Moers
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. — Washington Irving
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters. — Lewis Carroll
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music. — Becca Fitzpatrick
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes… — Arthur Miller
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. — Paulo Coelho
A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very… — Eric Ludy
When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet. — Julia Quinn
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. — George Sand
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victimâ€”even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the… — Michael Chabon
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. — Stephen King
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis
The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does… — Erin Morgenstern

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